Sunday’s outings: â–º FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) Fest 2015 goes off starting at 3 p.m. at the Echo, with No Parents, Talk In Tongues, Line & Circle, Paul Bergmann, Bobby London, Winter, Harriet Brown. Pageants, Bouquet, Melted and Traps PS. [Set times at the end of the post.] â–º Sparks returns to Theatre at Ace Hotel […]
Happy Valentine’s Day: ► Sparks and a 38-piece orchestra performs the 1974 album “Kimono My House” among other songs from their 23-album repertoire at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. â–º The Growlers headline the Hollywood Palladium in support of their latest album “Chinese Fountain.” That’s the Growler’s video for “Good Advice” above. â–º PAPA headlines the […]
Archis are a singer/producer duo, but not the chanteuse-and-synthesizer variety that proliferate in the pop marketplace. No, on Archis’ self-titled EP, due Feb. 23 via Nettwerk, there are strings and horns involved, and it sounds sublime. The music is the latest vehicle for Dia Frampton, who emerged as a teenage wunderkind a decade ago with […]
The desert-fried electro of Gram Rabbit has always a wacky, subversive streak — after all, the Joshua Tree denizens’ debut a long decade ago was titled “Music to Start a Cult To” (and there is one, in a manner of speaking, the fan group “The Royal Order of Rabbits”). In her solo guise, the quartet’s alluring […]
“Sea Monster,” the self-released 2013 album by multi-culti indie-rockers Salt Petal, continues to make friends and influence people. The group’s mix of tropical-flavored indie rock, cumbia, Latin folk and soul has received recent attention in the U.K. from Songlines Magazine, which tabbed the upbeat single “Por La Luna” as a winner in its world music competition. […]
Friday night’s just crazy, people: â–º Dr. Dog, touring behind the release of “Live at the Flamingo Hotel,” headlines the Wiltern, with Hanni El Khatib supporting. â–º At the El Rey, it’s Hundred Waters, Moses Sumney and Natalie Prass. Above, the animated video for “Innocent” by French director Jeremy Clapin. â–º The Dodos rock the […]
The simple black-and-white video treatment for the Twilight Sad’s “I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want” seems perfect for the Scottish trio’s all-wrapped-up-in-brogue mopery. The song is from the Scottish post-punk trio’s latest album, “Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave,” released last fall. While their fourth album (or their […]
Argentina’s Bonson Berner relocated from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles a couple of years ago and introduced themselves to U.S. audiences with the album “Passport,” an album of brooding, propulsive electro-rockers. Helmed by musician, photographer, painter and architect Lisandro “Pato†Aloi, a veteran of Argentine rockers Siga la Flecha, the band is finishing off its […]
Tuesday would make a great mixtape: â–º Singer-songwriter Ben Howard plays the Shrine Expo Hall behind his latest album “I Forget Where We Were,” supported by Willy Mason. â–º Kate Voegele headlines the Troubadour behind her “Wild Card” EP, her first new music in three years. Leroy Sanchez and Andie Case open. â–ºAt the Bootleg […]
The Beta Machine, a passion project founded by multi-instrumentalist Matt McJunkins (A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, 30 Seconds to Mars) and drummer Jeff Friedl (A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, Filter, Devo), are still somewhat under the radar as they spend more time in the studio with producer Mat Mitchell. They debuted live at the Viper Room, April […]
